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As much as I love my Parasound 2125v2 amp (150 wpc, 35 amps peak/channel), I want to upgrade (to take further advantage of my new Cardas Parsec RCA cables) to hear anything better that's <$3500 and < 50 lbs. I have a mixed use music/home theater (7.4.4 setup). streaming source=Apple Music lossless
If your system (gear and lossless streaming) is highend enough, then I heard a difference. I love my Cardas Parsec RCA cables and Cardas Clear USB cable (and WorldsBestCable if you can't afford the Cardas), and GearIT speaker cables. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_fy2TU1bzus.html --- source=Apple Music lossless
Oh YES. I have several NAD integrated amplifiers. Extremely smooth, never struggles with power, unless you want to share your listening with your neighbors 2-3 houses down the road.
I’m a confirmed believer that cables DO make a difference. If you spend some money, the sound does open up, becomes more transparent. Now, I don’t believe you need to spend anywhere near $10K, even $1K. I’ve found that spending $60 - $140 makes a noticeable difference, for the good. I personally can hear an improvement.
This is a very confusing video I don't know when you're reading off the screen or they're your own thoughts, I can't tell where you start and stop. All I say is EVERY review of every audio product needs to be done totally BLIND!!! Without knowing what the brand is, price is, how it looks, feels etc. After the listening and evaluation, then the product should be revealed to the reviewer. Seeing the product and knowing its price before the review introduces too much bias
I agree with you, make sure your equipment is of good quality and you have good speakers. Then you can buy good quality cables without spending a lot of money. Just make sure they are well made and meet the standard
Cables do make a difference. You would not take the cable that connects your 40w bedside lamp to the wall socket and use it to connect your 3kw space heater to the mains outlet, would you? But, you could take the stock cable that connects your 3kw heater to the mains outlet and use it to connect your 40w lamp to the wall socket. Would it improve the performance of that 40w lamp? No. Because the stock cable provided with that lamp is more than good enough! The only circumstances where upgrading that lamp’s stock cable may be advisable, is if you plan to locate that lamp in the shed at the bottom of the garden and connect it to a wall socket in your conservatory at the front of your house. In the world of audio/video, keeping your interconnects as short as feasible, will minimise the need for more costly cables. All my interconnects are less than 45cm long with the exception of the speaker cables that connect my monoblocks to my speakers. They are by necessity 150cm long. I could have used 49p per meter bell cable for that connection and it would have worked. I could equally have used £499 per meter exotic cable and that would have worked. I chose to use cable costing £8.99 a meter, and paying a little extra to get that cable factory terminated, because that is more than good enough. Enjoy the music.
Exactly. As long as basic electric requirements are met (which is very easy and cheap), all that matters is physical properties: flexible cable (for line level) and sturdy plugs, well assembled, for mechanical longevity. You can do this yourself for 10-20 moneys for an RCA pair of 1-3m using standard cable and plugs from your local pro audio supplier. It's exactly the kind of cable ALL the music you're listening to has run through dozens of meters of in the studio. If it's good enough for the musicians and producers, it's good enough for listening.
Remember that feeling when you first hear a Rel subwoofer(s) Well, when I swapped my audioquest black lab RCA's for the more expensive Chord Shawline RCA's. That same warm, fuzzy emotional feeling all came back 🥳
After living with several HDMI cables and auditioning several more, it was only when I implemented the CHORD AOC EPIC HDMI cables that the high frequency interference noise completely disappeared. There are times by pressing pause (or mute) I'm actually unable to differentiate whether the system is on or off! Of course, one would have to first shield the analogue cables before moving onto the digitals to work this out. No good addressing the quietest when one hasn't addressed the noisiest!
I've said it many times over the years. Buy multiple different cables and ROTATE. I have cables that I made and cables that cost hundreds a foot. It takes sooooo much time to try cables and decide on the best for a system. What works on a DAC might be terrible for pre-amp. I used glass to lift cables off floor before anybody seemed to talk about floor. Crazy !
Strange but interesting video. I'm not sure audiophiles read What Hi-Fi. It's not really taken as a serious publication here in he UK. Hi-Fi News & RR is the one I go to for serious audio reviews. However, like the What Hi-Fi reviewer, I own both the Garrard 401 & Michell Turntable, but the Gyrodec not their top of the line Orbe. Funnily enough I was considering a Vertere as a third Turntable I would like to own but have decided it will probably be my childhood dream of the one I've always lustered after - the Oracle Delphi from Canada. The most revealing speakers I ever heard were the Quad Electrostatics, but the Wilson Benesch - Bishops I once heard had the same level of transparency but with a lot more bass. They're up amongst the finest speakers I have ever heard. You should check out their Turntables and Tonearms as they're pretty awesome, too. I never got on with Wilson Speakers the ones I've heard were balanced weirdly. Most if not all sounded terrible to me. Even the US components are pricey in the UK and to me very overated (a bit like their cars!) compared to their UK counterpart. They may work in those large US rooms, but I'm yet to be convinced.
Right on! Also "imo" I feel that all reviewers should state their range of hearing and if they can hear the difference between a $100 guitar to a $1000 guitar
It can also be said that high-end speakers are ridiculously overpriced. We have computers doing most of the precision work now. Gone are the days with storerooms full of failed prototypes, since most of these products now can be proven before the first machine starts. Instead, these products are priced as if a lone pedigreed artisan produces one pair at a time, with hand tools. We also must consider that with many of these products, the inert components such as the boxes and the finish, are often worth several times more than the sum of it's functional parts. I have DIY speakers that measure better than many massed produced products. Not to mention that many kit designers are pros in their own right. Jeff Bagby, comes to mind, among others. Finally, just about any speaker that measures favorably, will be more capable than the recordings that will pass thru them. I have some inexpensive DIY bookshelf speakers that when well recorded material is played thru them, they perform rather flawlessly. These things have instead taught me that I was paying too much for what amounted to diminished returns.
I have a nice Denon stereo receiver, AT turntable, Sony CD, WiiM pro, a Kenwood cassette deck, an FM antenna, pair of JBLs, Velodyne Subwoofer, pair of Boston Acoustics and I'm done! Six figure components are f***ing ridiculous.
Hi there,thank you for this video!!!I am about to buy PMC Prodigy 1 and i want to match them with Rega Brio.I will use them in 12m2 room.What do you think about this combination?🎵🎶
